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Mobley, Martha Ann Forest. The mountains surround us: Memories of a Georgia family. Jasper, Ga. (Rte. 1, Box 68, Jasper 30143): Mobley & Stenger, 1994.
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Milne, A. A. Piglet is Entirely Surrounded by Water. New York: Dutton Children's Books, 1990.
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Milne, A. A. Piglet Is Entirely Surrounded by Water. New York, USA: Dutton Children's Books, 1993.
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Milne, A. A. Piglet Is Entirely Surrounded by Water. New York, NY: Dutton Children's Books, 1990.
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Milne, A. A. Piglet is entirely surrounded by water. New York: Dutton Children's Books, 1991.
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Milne, A. A. Piglet is Entirely Surrounded by Water. New York, USA: Dutton Children's Books, 1998.
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Urrutia Sánchez, Elena. 10 didactic activities for intermediate english classes. Bogotá. Colombia: Universidad de La Salle. Ediciones Unisalle, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.19052/9789585136441.
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This book has been created for both intermediate English students and their English teachers, who will be able to find a variety of activities to complement their English classes. Although this book has been particularly designed for Intermediate English levels and academic spaces at the Licenciatura en Lengua Castellana, Inglés y Francés, such as Language and Communication I II, Language Interaction and Anglophone Society I II, and even Pedagogical Practicum and Formative Research, it can be adapted to several other levels of mastery of the language, as well as to a wide range of educational EFL (English as a Foreign Language) and ESL (English as a Second Language) settings, given the fact that the book's main aim is to provide students with the opportunity to take a prime role as the center of the leaming process of a rich experience of language in use (Krashen, 1989). Such goal can be achieved through didactic class tasks that can ignite the thirst for communicating in English in order to consolidate the concepts already learned in class and, beyond that, by letting go of any fear and anxiety to 'function' well-or 'accurately'-in English class, and sharing their own background knowledge and their own 'self' towards the construction of new ways of thinking and seeing the world that surrounds them within an educational framework.
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Simone, AbdouMaliq. The Surrounds. Duke University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/9781478022749.
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In The Surrounds renowned urbanist AbdouMaliq Simone offers a new theorization of the interface of the urban and the political. Working at the intersection of Black studies, urban theory, and decolonial and Islamic thought, Simone centers the surrounds—those urban spaces beyond control and capture that exist as a locus of rebellion and invention. He shows that even in clearly defined city environments, whether industrial, carceral, administrative, or domestic, residents use spaces for purposes they were not designed for: schools become housing, markets turn into classrooms, tax offices transform into repair shops. The surrounds, Simone contends, are where nothing fits according to design. They are where forgotten and marginalized populations invent new relations and ways of living and being, continuously reshaping what individuals and collectives can do. Focusing less on what new worlds may come to be and more on what people are creating now, Simone shows how the surrounds are an integral part of the expansiveness of urban imagination.
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Kerins, Mark. Multichannel Gaming and the Aesthetics of Interactive Surround. Edited by John Richardson, Claudia Gorbman, and Carol Vernallis. Oxford University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199733866.013.014.
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This article appears in theOxford Handbook of New Audiovisual Aestheticsedited by John Richardson, Claudia Gorbman, and Carol Vernallis. This chapter examines multichannel sound—specifically 5.1-channel surround sound—in video games, using gaming genres to explore the varying ways that games structure the three-way relationship among a multichannel sound track, onscreen visuals, and the game play itself. This approach uncovers distinct strategies of multichannel usage in platformers, first-person shooters, third-person 3D games, and rhythm games, and shows how these differ from traditional cinematic multichannel uses, especially in the way they problematize the relationship between image and sound. These differing approaches to game aesthetics illustrate different ways of conceiving the relationship among players, their in-game avatars, and the game world, with the sound mixing “rules” programmed into a game revealing the type of immersion and interactivity the game can promote. For example, some strategies reinforce the player–avatar connection, whereas others increase the distance between them. The chapter concludes by considering how industrial and technical factors unique to gaming impact multichannel sound usage.
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Brown, Deborah J., and Calvin G. Normore. Descartes and the Ontology of Everyday Life. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198836810.001.0001.
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Far from being the founder of an austere reductionism, Descartes is committed to a rich, multilayered, and complex metaphysics. This book begins by locating Descartes’s work against the ancient and medieval background to which he is reacting. It proceeds to argue that his theory of distinctions requires what he explicitly endorses―that in addition to minds and modes, there are material substances of every size. These substances when appropriately configured form automata, self-sustaining, functionally integrated systems of which animals and human bodies are important sub-classes. Descartes’ conception of function, which is crucial to his characterization of these uniquely organized collections of matter, is shown to be compatible with his rejection of final causes in natural science, and gives him resources to account for composite beings which are not themselves substances. It is argued that besides automata, these composites include individual human beings, which are unions of minds and bodies individuated by minds. The unique modes which characterize the union, in particular, its passions, set the foundation for a social ontology that includes genuine social entities such as families and nation states. Societies are forged by individuals in acts of willing to join in union with others that Descartes takes to be of the essence of love. The result is a picture of Descartes very different from the myths that have come to surround him.
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Milne, A. A. Piglet Is Entirely Surrounded by Water. McClelland and Stewart, 1988.
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Milne, A. A. Piglet is Entirely Surrounded by Water. Random House Value Publishing, 1995.
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Milne, A. A. Piglet Is Surrounded by Water S. Egmont Books Ltd, 1998.
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Milne, A. A. Piglet is entirely surrounded by water. Methuen Children's, 1991.
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Milne, A. A. Piglet is Entirely Surrounded by Water. EGMONT BOOKS, 2003.
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Milne, A. A. Piglet is entirely surrounded by water. Methuen Children's, 1991.
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Milne, A. A. Piglet is entirely surrounded by water. Little Mammoth, 1989.
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Fabbrini, Federico, ed. The Law & Politics of Brexit. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198811763.001.0001.
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The decision by the people of the United Kingdom (UK) to vote in a referendum on 23 June 2016 to leave the European Union (EU) has produced shock-waves across Europe and the world. While the Treaty on European Union explicitly allows a Member State to withdraw from the Union, no country thus far had ever decided to secede from what is arguably the most successful experiment in regional integration in history. Brexit, therefore, calls into question consolidated assumptions on the finality of the EU, and simultaneously opens new challenges—not only in the institutional fabric of Europe, but also in the UK constitutional settlement, eg in Northern Ireland and Scotland. This book provides a first comprehensive analysis of the challenges posed by Brexit, their causes, and their consequences. By combining the contributions of lawyers, political scientists, and political economists from across Europe, the book seeks to shed light on the manifold and complicated effects that Brexit creates—in the UK, and its internal constitutional settlement, as well as in the EU, and its institutional regime. While many uncertainties still surround the process of the UK’s withdrawal from the EU, so much is already on the table: this book thus avoids speculation and focuses instead on the many and difficult political, legal, and economic issues that Brexit exposed.
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Gershun, Martha, and John D. ,. MD Lantos. Kidney to Share. Cornell University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501755439.001.0001.
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This book tells the story of the author's decision to donate a kidney to a stranger. The book takes readers through the complex process by which such donors are vetted to ensure that they are physically and psychologically fit to take the risk of a major operation. The story is also placed in the larger context of the history of kidney transplantation and the ethical controversies that surround living donors. The book helps readers understand the discoveries that made transplantation relatively safe and effective as well as the legal, ethical, and economic policies that make it feasible. The book explores the steps involved in recovering and allocating organs. It analyzes the differences that arise depending on whether the organ comes from a living donor or one who has died. It observes the expertise — and the shortcomings — of doctors, nurses, and other professionals and describes the burdens that we place on people who are willing to donate. It asks us to consider just how far society should go in using one person's healthy body parts in order to save another person. The book provides an account of organ donation that is both personal and analytical. A combination of perspectives leads to a profound and compelling exploration of a largely opaque practice. The book pulls back the curtain to offer readers a more transparent view of the fascinating world of organ donation.
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Kuralt, Charles, and A. A. Milne. Piglet Is Entirely Surrounded by Water storytape (Pooh Read-Along). Puffin, 2001.
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Milne, A. A. Piglet Is Entirely Surrounded by Water with Cassette(s) (Pooh Read-Along). Tandem Library, 2001.
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(Illustrator), A. A. Milne, and Ernest H. Shepard (Illustrator), eds. PIGLET IS SURROUNDED BY WATER, Pooh Puzzle Book: Pooh Puzzle Book (Pooh Puzzle Books). Dutton Juvenile, 1999.
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Sunardi, Christina. Afterword. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252038952.003.0007.
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This concluding chapter reflects on the major points made throughout this book, discussing how individual artists have developed personal strategies for situating themselves within the constantly evolving constellations of personal, local, national, and global values that surround the negotiation of masculinity and femininity. Furthermore it returns to the subject of female power and how the performers maintain and make cultural space for the magnetic power of femaleness. Finally, and in spite of performers' concerns about the future of local tradition, the chapter expresses optimism about the future of the performing arts in Malang, demonstrating how a new generation of performers is actively engaging with the art.
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Dresser, Rebecca. Dementia, Dignity, and Physician-Assisted Death. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190675967.003.0007.
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As more people live into their later years, more of them become susceptible to Alzheimer’s disease and other age-related dementias. Many people fear dementia, and some argue that physician-assisted death should be available to those seeking to avoid the indignity of life with dementia. Distinct issues surround the relationship of dignity and assisted death for potential or actual dementia patients. This chapter examines the role of dignity concerns in addressing (1) requests for assisted death by at-risk individuals to avoid a possible future with dementia, (2) requests for assisted death by individuals with mild or moderate dementia, and (3) advance directives requesting assisted death in the event of a later dementia diagnosis or appearance of specific behavioral manifestations of dementia (e.g., apparent inability to recognize family and friends).
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Harvey, David. A Brief History of Neoliberalism. Oxford University Press, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199283262.001.0001.
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Neoliberalism--the doctrine that market exchange is an ethic in itself, capable of acting as a guide for all human action--has become dominant in both thought and practice throughout much of the world since 1970 or so. Writing for a wide audience, David Harvey, author of The New Imperialism and The Condition of Postmodernity, here tells the political-economic story of where neoliberalization came from and how it proliferated on the world stage. Through critical engagement with this history, he constructs a framework, not only for analyzing the political and economic dangers that now surround us, but also for assessing the prospects for the more socially just alternatives being advocated by many oppositional movements.
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Jackson, Richard J. Addressing the Built Environment and Health. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190662677.003.0039.
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Air, water, and food environments profoundly influence health. Yet, many humans spend most of their time in “built environments”: the structures and places designed and built to surround human existence. These environments range from homes, schools, offices, industrial facilities, roadways, sidewalks, parks, and even vehicles. All of these environments can raise or limit risks to injuries; acute illnesses, such as asthma; and long- term disorders, such as obesity and diabetes. These environments shape economic, social, and psychological well-being—and ultimately planetary sustainability. Designing environments to promote physical activity, including walking, stair climbing, bicycling and other forms of active transportation, is a documented tool for public health improvement.
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Mele, Alfred R. Living Without Agent Causation. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190659974.003.0011.
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This chapter explores a question about agent causation: If we were to learn that agent causation is impossible, what effect might that have on some philosophers’ reasoning about event-causal libertarianism? It is argued that, with agent causation off the table, event-causal libertarianism’s appeal would grow stronger for some philosophers. The stage for this argument is set partly by means of a review of issues about luck, control, and settling that surround some arguments subjected to critical scrutiny earlier in the book: namely, the same-control argument, the more-control argument, and Derk Pereboom’s disappearing agent argument. Special attention is paid to direct control. Two different accounts of direct control are offered.
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Liponis, Mark, and Bettina Martin. An Integrative Approach to the Assessment and Treatment of Inflammatory Conditions. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780190241254.003.0017.
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The past two decades have seen great progress in recognizing the importance of inflammation in medicine. Increased focus on inflammation in both prevention and treatment has improved outcomes and quality of life in chronic diseases. Science has improved our understanding of inflammation’s many causes and effects on health, and many advances have been made in the availability of targeted therapeutic options for treating inflammation. This chapter gives an overview of recognizing the many causes of inflammation, its many targeted treatments strategies, and the questions that still surround it. It discusses several integrative approaches to reducing inflammation, including exercise, diet, and different strategies for managing sleep, mood, and stress, such as meditation and massage.
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Watson, Max, Stephen Ward, Nandini Vallath, Jo Wells, and Rachel Campbell, eds. Oxford Handbook of Palliative Care. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198745655.001.0001.
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The Oxford Handbook of Palliative Care is a concise summary of current Palliative Care Practice written by those actively involved in the care of patients in the last phase of life. While management of symptoms is a very important contribution to the quality of end of life care, dying is not predominantly a medical event, but an important part of life. As such the Handbook, while detailing the contemporary management of physical and psychological symptoms, also includes contributions from a wide variety of professionals involved in the wider aspects of care and support for individuals and their families. The Handbook also includes references and quotations from literature relating to the existential issues that surround mortality.
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Schacher, Jan C. Algorithmic Spatialization. Edited by Roger T. Dean and Alex McLean. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190226992.013.12.
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Beginning with a brief historical overview of spatial audio and music practices, this chapter looks at principles of sound spatialization, algorithms for composing and rendering spatial sound and music, and different techniques of spatial source positioning and sound space manipulation. These operations include composing with abstract objects in a sound scene, creating compound sounds using source clusters, altering spatial characteristics by means of spectral sound decomposition, and the manipulation of artificial acoustic spaces. The chapter goes on to discuss practical issues of live spatialization and, through an example piece, the ways a number of different algorithms collaborate in the constitution of a generative audio-visual installation with surround audio and video. Finally, the challenges and pitfalls of using spatialization and some of the common reasons for failure are brought to attention.
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Webster, Michael A. Blur Adaptation and Induction. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199794607.003.0110.
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The image on the retina is always blurred because of optical aberrations of the eye. Yet typically the world does not “look” blurred, and although the acuity of the eye varies dramatically from the center of gaze to the periphery, the outside world generally “feels” focused throughout the visual field. This perception of focus is one of many illusions where the brain appears unaware of its own imperfections. The perceived focus of an image can be strongly biased by prior adaptation to a blurred or sharpened image or by simultaneous contrast from a blurred or sharpened surround. Adaptation to blur can selectively adjust to the patterns of blur introduced by different optical aberrations and may reflect adjustments that help compensate spatial perception for the optical and neural sensitivity limits of the visual system.
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Alexander, Kevin. Myocarditis and Pericarditis. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199976805.003.0019.
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Infectious myocarditis is a primary, inflammatory cardiomyopathy that can lead to cardiomyocyte toxicity via direct myocyte invasion, toxin production, and/or stimulation of a chronic inflammatory response through antigenic mimicry. Its incidence is difficult to determine due to significant disease heterogeneity and the lack of a noninvasive gold standard for diagnosis. Often, the causative pathogen is not identified; in cases where it is, appropriate anti-infective agents may be used. Treatment is primarily supportive. Acute infectious pericarditis involves inflammation of the parietal and visceral layers of the pericardial sac that surround the heart. Because infectious pericarditis usually has a viral etiology, antibiotics are only started if blood or pericardial effusion cultures demonstrate a bacterial or fungal cause. Purulent pericarditis and cardiac tamponade should be treated with drainage via either pericardiocentesis or a pericardiotomy. Pericardial resection is the only treatment for constrictive pericarditis.
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Allsop, Cheryl. Instrumental and Symbolic Politics in Policing. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198747451.003.0003.
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This chapter considers the development of, and growing interest in, cold case reviews, distinguishing between the instrumental and symbolic politics which surround their development. What becomes clear in this chapter is that the rise in interest can be attributed to a number of individual and interlocking events, including changes in police legitimacy, the introduction of a number of police reforms, and initiatives resulting in changes to police practices, pressure from victims’ rights groups for more attention from the criminal justice system, and advances in scientific techniques and technologies with increasing uses found for them. The chapter briefly considers the political background to cold case reviews, and how this connects with the broader politics of policing along with the instrumental politics of maintaining major crime review teams and the symbolic politics which helps to justify expenditure in cold case reviews.
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Karnik, Niranjan S. Vulnerability, youth, and homelessness: Ethical considerations on the roles of technology in the lives of adolescents and young adults. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198786832.003.0004.
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Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, Instagram … It is easy to see that society is in a tide or successive waves of social media. All of this is linked to mobile technology and the expanding role that it plays in people’s lives. This chapter takes a close look at the role of technology in the lives of young people and more specifically in the lives of vulnerable youth. The first section of this chapter examines the ways that social media and mobile technology impact adolescents and young adults, and considers some of the emerging ethical considerations for mental health clinicians and researchers. Next, it examines subsets of youth who are marginalized, including young people with mental illness or autism, and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) youth. Finally, it considers the ethical and neuroethical issues that surround homeless youth and their use of technology.
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Adrych, Philippa, Robert Bracey, Dominic Dalglish, Stefanie Lenk, and Rachel Wood. Identifications. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198792536.003.0005.
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Chapter 5 responds to the previous chapter by looking at the complications that surround a very clearly labelled image of Mithra. This image appears on coins minted in Bactria, a region in the Kushan Empire that spanned parts of modern-day Afghanistan, Pakistan, and northern India from the early first century AD to the early third century AD. On these coins we find a youthful figure with a halo identified as ‘Miiro’, who is offering a blessing for the king, Kanishka. The public nature of these coins is contrasted with less-accessible depictions of the god found in sanctuaries across Bactria. The precise character of who is represented and what was understood by these labels and images is complex, and so this chapter explores how the name ‘Miiro’ on these coins related to the religious beliefs of the Bactrian population.
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Hill, Christopher, Michael Smith, and Sophie Vanhoonacker. International Relations and the European Union. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/hepl/9780198737322.001.0001.
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International Relations and the European Union takes a unique approach by incorporating the study of the EU's world role into the wider field of international relations. The text explains the EU's role in the contemporary world. Beginning with an examination of theoretical frameworks and approaches, the text goes on to address the institutions and processes that surround the EU's international relations. Key policy areas, such as security and trade, are outlined in detail, alongside the EU's relations with specific countries, including the United States, China, India, and Russia. Updates for the third edition include expanded discussions of three key perspectives to provide a rounded picture of the EU's place in the international system: as a sub-system of international relations, as part of the process of international relations, and as a power in its own right.
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Bristow, Jennie. Stop Mugging Grandma. Yale University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.12987/yale/9780300236835.001.0001.
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Millennials have been incited to regard their parents' generation as entitled and selfish, and to blame the baby boomers of the 1960s for the cultural and economic problems of today. But is it true that young people have been victimized by their elders? This book looks at generational labels and the groups of people they apply to. It argues that the prominence and popularity of terms like ‘baby boomer’, ‘millennial’, and ‘snowflake’ in mainstream media operates as a smoke screen — directing attention away from important issues such as housing, education, pensions, and employment. The book systematically disputes the myths that surround the ‘generational war’, exposing it to be nothing more than a tool by which the political and social elite can avoid public scrutiny. It highlights the major issues and concerns surrounding the sociological blame game.
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Bernstein, Sara, and Tyron Goldschmidt, eds. Non-Being. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198846222.001.0001.
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We are surrounded by things that exist, like chairs, tables, phones, and people. But we are also surrounded by things that don’t exist, like holes, shadows, omissions, and negative properties. We read stories of nonexistent unicorns and magical creatures. We reason about scenarios that don’t exist, from the small (‘what if I’d have studied an hour longer?’) to the large (‘what if World War II hadn’t occurred?’). We refer to nonexistents (‘that paper doesn’t exist yet’). And we hold people morally responsible for things that they don’t do (‘you should have rescued the rabbit!’). Nonexistence is ubiquitous, yet mysterious. This volume of new essays covers some of the trickiest questions about non-being and nonexistence—from Could have been nothing at all? to What are holes?—alongside answers from diverse philosophical traditions. The essays explore analytic, continental, Buddhist and Jewish philosophical perspectives, and range from metaphysics to ethics, from philosophy of science to philosophy of language, and beyond.
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Taylor, Kenneth A. Referring to the World. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195144741.001.0001.
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Our words and ideas refer to objects and properties in the external world; this phenomenon is central to thought, language, communication, and science. But great works of fiction are full of names that don’t seem to refer to anything! This book explores the myriad of problems that surround the phenomenon of reference. How can words in language and perturbations in our brains come to stand for external objects? Reference is essential to truth, but which is more basic: reference or truth? How can fictional characters play such an important role in imagination and literature, and how does this use of language connect with more mundane uses? The book develops a framework for understanding reference, and the theories that other thinkers—past and present—have developed about it. But it doesn’t simply tell us what others thought; the book is full of new ideas and analyses, making for a vital final contribution from a seminal philosopher.
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Martin, Lou. Introduction. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252039454.003.0001.
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This introductory chapter argues that studies of the industrialization of rural places like Hancock County can help in understanding the nature of industrial capitalism, particularly the relationship between capital mobility and the working class. Industries periodically entered periods of crisis that required a general restructuring for companies to remain profitable, and relocations were a key component in the process. In “undeveloped” rural areas, some manufacturers believed that they could create new environments free of discord and find grateful and compliant pool of rural laborers—often women and other low-wage workers—to surround the core of handpicked skilled workers. Thus, manufacturers' old labor problems and their high hopes for an improved workforce figured prominently in the migration of capital to rural places. Eventually, rural migrants and young people from local farms brought their own ideas, goals, and culture—distinct from those of the skilled craftsmen—and came to constitute a truly rural-industrial workforce.
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Gillespie, Caitlin C. Family and Freedom. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190609078.003.0004.
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Chapter 3 addresses Tacitus’s image of Boudica as a mother who leads a revolt through appealing to family values and attaching them to the ideal of freedom. Boudica’s cry for freedom is connected with her motherhood and the theme of chastity. Tacitus draws upon Livy’s Brutus, Lucretia, and others in order to align these two concepts and to contrast Boudica’s values of chastity and parenthood with the violence, licentiousness, and greed of the Romans. The concerns of the Britons are manifested by the Temple of Claudius at Camulodunum. The burning of this temple symbolizes the negation of the Roman presence in Britain. In her call to action, Boudica unites the themes of family and freedom and differs from the imperial women that surround her narrative in Tacitus’s Annals. Through Boudica, Tacitus aligns issues in the province with freedom at Rome during Nero’s tyrannical reign.
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Croken, Ryan. Obama bin Laden [sic]. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252038860.003.0009.
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This chapter examines the cultural “confusion” that existed in the United States between Osama bin Laden and Barack Obama. It uses the cultural slippages (Obama/Osama), conspiratorial elisions (Obama is Osama), and religious assumptions (Obama, like Osama, is Muslim) that surround Osama and Obama as points for analyzing racialized dynamics that underlie narratives of U.S. exceptionalism, military power, and global dominance. It identifies some of the myriad streams through which popular culture effects its messages: T-shirts, web tools (photo morphing), memes, hip-hop, tweets, YouTube videos, and the like. Attending to these media formats is an essential component of examining sense-making across the complexities of U.S. cultures. The chapter argues that the “confusion” between Osama and Obama is more than just difficulty with name pronunciation, lack of familiarity with Islam, or merging of nonwhite skin color, but is instead a complex negotiation of racial intersections with national narratives.
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Dommett, Kate, Sam Power, Amber Macintyre, and Andrew Barclay. Regulating the Business of Election Campaigns: Financial transparency in the influence ecosystem in the United Kingdom. International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA), 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.31752/idea.2022.28.
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The business of running election campaigns is integrated into democratic practices in countries around the world, yet little attention has been paid to the organizations that profit from working with political parties, or to the accountability mechanisms that surround this industry. Whilst the Cambridge Analytica scandal helped to bring more attention to the problematic aspects of electoral business, there remain many urgent and yet unanswered questions about who these suppliers are, what role they play in politics, and whether current transparency disclosures are fit for purpose. This Report takes a deep dive investigation into the UK 2019 general election and offers a unique examination of the role of election suppliers in the UK. Scrutinizing the UK’s public electoral spending database, this Report advances our understanding of the nature of modern campaigns by revealing what services external suppliers are providing to parties in election campaigns.
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Bellamy, Alex J. Military Intervention. Edited by Donald Bloxham and A. Dirk Moses. Oxford University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199232116.013.0030.
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This article examines the role that military intervention can play in ending genocide and the political, moral, and legal debates that surround it. The first section briefly examines how genocides have ended since the beginning of the twentieth century, and explores the place of military intervention by external powers. The second section examines whether there is a moral and/or legal duty to intervene to end genocide. The third section considers the reasons why states intervene only infrequently to put an end to genocide despite their rhetorical commitments. Historically, once started, genocides tend to end with either the military defeat of the perpetrators or the suppression of the victim groups. Only military force can directly prevent genocidal killing, stand between perpetrators and their intended victims, and protect the delivery of lifesaving aid. But its use entails risks for all parties and does not necessarily resolve the underlying conflict.
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Bowling, Benjamin, Robert Reiner, and James W. E. Sheptycki. The Politics of the Police. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/he/9780198769255.001.0001.
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In its fifth edition, The Politics of the Police has been revised, updated, and extended to take account of recent changes in the law, policy, organization, and social contexts of policing. It builds upon the previous editions’ political economy of policing to encompass a wide global and transnational scope, and to reflect the growing diversity of policing forms. This volume explores the highly charged debates that surround policing, including the various controversies that have led to a change in the public’s opinion of the police in recent years, as well as developments in law, accountability, and governance. The volume sets out to analyse what the police do, how they do it and with what effects, how the mass media shape public perceptions of the police, and how globalization, privatization, militarization, and securitization are impacting on contemporary police work. It concludes with an assessment of what we can expect for the future of policing.
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Speth, John D. 13,000 years of communal bison hunting in western North America. Edited by Umberto Albarella, Mauro Rizzetto, Hannah Russ, Kim Vickers, and Sarah Viner-Daniels. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199686476.013.37.
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For the past 13,000 years Indians in the North American Great Plains hunted bison (Bison bison and B. antiquus) in large communally organized drive operations. This chapter briefly describes the taxonomy of fossil and living bison, the behaviour of modern bison, and what is known from ethnohistoric and archaeological sources about the ways that Indians conducted these drives, including the use of foot surrounds, cliff jumps, arroyo traps, and pounds (corrals). The chapter concludes by considering whether such drives were conducted annually in the late fall and/or early winter as a means of winter provisioning; or instead were conducted periodically, but not necessarily annually, and at many different times of year, as a socio-political mechanism for integrating otherwise widely dispersed and highly mobile hunting bands.
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Mashhoon, Bahram. Nonlocal Gravity and Dark Matter. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198803805.003.0008.
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The implications of linearized NLG for the gravitational physics of the Solar System, spiral galaxies and nearby clusters of galaxies are critically examined in this chapter. In the Newtonian regime, NLG involves a reciprocal kernel with three length parameters. We discuss the determination of these parameters by comparing the predictions of the theory with observational data. Furthermore, the virial theorem for the Newtonian regime of NLG is derived and its consequences for nearby “isolated” astronomical systems in virial equilibrium are investigated. For such a galaxy, in particular, the galaxy’s baryonic diameter namely, the diameter of the smallest sphere that completely surrounds the baryonic system at the present time, is predicted to be larger than the basic nonlocality lengthscale, which is about 3 kpc, times the effective dark matter fraction of the galaxy.
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Boevink, Wilma. Risk and Recovery. Edited by John Z. Sadler, K. W. M. Fulford, and Cornelius Werendly van Staden. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198732365.013.13.
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The process of recovery from severe mental suffering can be seen as a journey through life for which there is no roadmap. The traveler has to find her way without it, sometimes even all alone, sometimes surrounded by fellow-travelers. Starting in the dark, overwhelmed by, e.g. fear or depression or negative voices, every step can be risky, but not moving means staying in the dark. Western society developed the psychiatric system as an answer to psychiatric problems, but does this system support recovery processes? This chapter addresses some ethical issues that come up from a patient perspective on the concept of recovery.
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Kaoma, Kapya J. The Marriage of Convenience. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252037726.003.0004.
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This chapter discusses how the myth that sexual rights are Western impositions has taken solid root in African theological and political discourse, in spite of the established fact that homosexuality was practiced in traditional societies. Right-leaning American and African religious and political leaders unabashedly claim that homosexual behaviors were introduced by Western progressives—giving them a neocolonial nexus. Sadly, scapegoating the West for what is essentially African diversity in sexual behaviors increases the culture of silence that surrounds sexuality across the continent. However, there is undoubtedly a very public outcry or countermobilization against homosexuality in today's Africa. Postcolonial Africa is highly critical of colonial laws and values, but one colonial legacy is the English law that reads the same across Anglophone Africa.
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Moller, David Wendell, ed. Dying at the Margins. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199760145.001.0001.
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Dying at the Margins: Reflections on Justice and Healing for Inner-City Poor gives voice to a most vulnerable and disempowered population—the urban dying poor—and connects them to the voices of leaders in end-of-life care. Chapters written by these experts in the field discuss the issues that challenge patients and their loved ones, as well as offering insights into how to improve the quality of their lives. In an illuminating and timely follow-up to Dancing with Broken Bones, all discussions revolve around the actual experiences of the patients previously documented, encouraging a greater understanding about the needs of the dying poor, advocating for them, and developing best practices in caring. Demystifying stereotypes that surround poverty, Moller illuminates how faith, remarkable optimism, and an unassailable spirit provide strength and courage to those who live and die at the margins. As with his previous book, Dying at the Margins serves as a rallying call for not only end-of-life professionals, but compassionate individuals everywhere, to understand and respond to the needs of the especially vulnerable, yet inspiring, people who comprise the world of the inner-city dying poor.